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.the final goal.The Milbank Fund was created by Albert G.Milbank who wasThis has been a conspicuous aspect of foundation grants sincetheir inception.The majority of foundation-supported projects in Chairman of the Borden Company and also the leading partner inthe social and political sciences have resulted in the promotion of the Wall Street law firm of Milbank, Tweed, Hope, Hadley andexpanded government power as the solution to the problems and McCloy.Milbank was no stranger to the cartel.John J.McCloy,injustices of the nation and the world.Plush grants have gone to one of his partners, was Chairman of the Chase National Bank,scholars, researchers, schools, dramatists, churches, theater trustee of the Rockefeller Foundation, chairman of the board ofgroups, mass-action organizations, poets, and ivory tower think-the CFR (Council on Foreign Relations), and a member of thetanks.They have been given to those within the Establishment, toExecutive Committee of Squibb Pharmaceutical.The significancethose who are anti-Establishment, to those who claim to be in theof the Milbank Fund is not that it has been the kindly sponsor ofmiddle, and to those who plot violent revolutions to overthrowprojects supposedly to upgrade the quality of public health, butthe government.They have been bestowed upon Republicans,that it was one of the first foundations to use its resources openlyDemocrats, New-Agers, militants, pacifists, socialists, and Com-to promote government expansion via socialized medicine.munists.The apparent divergence of these groups leads theRichard Carter, in his devastating attack against the AMA,casual observer to the erroneous conclusion that the foundationsentitled The Doctor Business, recounts the story:During the Coolidge and Hoover administrations, organized1.Garrison, op.cit., pp.195,196.medicine encountered little legislative difficulty.Its worst problems2.Joseph Goulden, The Money Givers, (New York: Random House, 1971),were those posed by the Committee on the Costs of Medical Carepp.145, 149. 254 WORLD WITHOUT CANCER: Part TwoTHE CHARITY PRESCRIPTION 255and the philanthropic foundations which financed the CCMC'sThe public-relations value of philanthropy did not originatework.The Milbank Fund was regarded as particularly virulent.with Ivy Lee.Rockefeller himself had observed how the negativeDespite protests from local medical societies, it continued pilotimage of George Peabody had been changed almost overnight bystudies in New York State which illustrated the advantages ofconspicuous acts of public charity, and the same thing with hispublicly organized preventive medicine.Worse, its secretary, Johnclose friend Andrew Carnegie.Shortly after Carnegie proclaimedA.Kingsbury, was an advocate of federal health insurance and sohis famous "Gospel of Wealth" in which he stated that men ofwas its president, Albert G.Milbank.With the election of Franklingreat fortune had an obligation to further humanitarian objectivesD.Roosevelt, such advocacy became formidable.It was expectedthat Roosevelt would include compulsory health insurance in his through philanthropy, Rockefeller wrote to him and said: "BeSocial Security laws.(1)assured, your example will bear fruits."(1) Later, when the firstRockefeller general philanthropic board was created, CarnegieThe entry of the Rockefeller group into the foundation arenawas made a trustee and served for eleven years.Rockefeller andis of paramount importance to the subject of this treatise, for noCarnegie, applying the typical philosophy of industrial cartels,other single force has been as influential in shaping the contoursagreed not to compete or overlap in their philanthropic endeav-of modern medicine in America.One of the first moves in thators, and operated their respective foundations as though theydirection was made when John D
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